The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 275, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 18, 1983 Page: 4 of 68
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Sunday, September IB, 1963
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Wanda Orton
UH Babylon Revisited
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guessed they were trying to con- were evacuated In the Roy Cullen
With a tremendous amount of serve. Building, as hundreds of students
construction going on, wood advanced toward the building,
fences sprang up around the I WAS ALWAYS curious about shouting, “One, two, three, four,
heavy equipment and excava- the causes espoused by the politl- we don’t want your (expletive
tlons. Graffiti on the fences pro- cally-conscious students, deleted) war!” I watched from
vided yet another outlet of pro- especially about the Vietnam the steps of the building, wonder-
test. With words on wood, stu- War. Frankly, I was confused. ing why the marchers were blam-
dents chalked up a kind of under- In my first round in college, I ing the war on English classes,
ground newspaper. Funny things, never heard word-one against the Suddenly, the troopers took an
too. The fence afforded an amu- Korean War. As an elementary abrupt turn toward the Ezekiel
sing diversion for long walks school kid in the '40s, I’d backed Cullen Building, headquarters of
across campus. World War II all the way, along the administration.
It got to where nothing sur- with every other decent Ameri-
prised me. An uneventful day was can.
unusual.
A young man used to take his
shaggy dog to class. I thought that
was cute until I saw the dog slurp-
ing water from a fountain In the
Roy Cullen Building. As much as 1
like dogs, I don’t like to drink
after them.
And there was this peacock. To
this day, I don’t know where the
peacock came from but it was
there. I saw the colorful creature
several times strutting over the
campus — even have witnesses.
Eager to learn, I took advan-
tage of extra lectures, films and
other programs after class. One
such gathering was a poetry-
reading session which included
Rice and TSU students as well as
some of my UH classmates. I
wondered why so many of the
poets were sharing the same
cigarette, taking a puff and then
passing it on to the next person. I
The best of times and the worst went up in its place,
of times, the latter 1960s, when I
entered the University of Hous-
ton.
The protest against the Viet-
nam War was gaining momen-
tum. A new awareness was grow-
ing in the ecology and environ-
ment. The Civil Rights move-
ment, already well under way,
was taking a turn at times toward
militant black power.
Protest marches, sit-in demon-
strations and class boycotts
belonged to this turbulent era. As
far as I know, there were no in-
juries during demonstrations on
the UH campus, but blood was
shed in a riot a few blocks away
on the Texas Southern University
campus.
In my first attempt at higher
education, in the early ’50s at Lee
College, Korean War veterans
were in my classes. In the late
’60s, my classmates included
Vietnam War veterans.
My generation had been sub-
dued and submissive, never buck-
ing authority. Young students of
the ’60s questioned everything.
One protester, I remember in
particular, was a tenacious young
man who went out on a limb, try-
ing to stop construction workers
from ch pping down a tree. He
climbed the tree and remained
there all night long until forced
down. The tree was “forced”
down, too, and a new building
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Value Of Housework
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Set At $7 Per Hour
If any Baytown housewives have been thinking about
charging husbands for housework, it might help to know
researchers have determined a housewife’s chores are
worth about $7 an hour.
Some of you dedicated housewives may “flip” when you
read this. Industrial janitors, especially if they belong to a
labor union, make at least $10 an hour. How about that?
In the past, the value of housework has been based on
what researchers call “market altemative”-what it
would cost to have outsiders come to the house and work.
However, a team of Cornell University researchers ar-
rived at the $7 rate through what they call the “opportuni-
ty cost” method.. This formula assumes the value of
housework performed by a full-time wife with two
children is the lowest wage that would draw her into the
labor market.
A married woman’s time must be valued by her and her
family at least as high as this ,($7) wage rate or else she
would seek employment outside the home, a Cornell
researcher said.
The value of housework for unemployed wives was
determined to be between $8.40 and $7.60 an hour, com-
pared to $4.30 and $5.60 using the market alternative
method.
The figures are higher using the opportunity cost
method because it includes the value of management in-
volved in housework and the typically higher quality of
work done by housewives, the Cornell study said.
Some of the Baytown housewives we know are likely to
think $7 is about half what their work is worth.
I left then, heading toward the
parking lot, but something just
drew me over to take a detour —
to the Ezekiel Cullen Building.
Amid the roar of the “one-two-
three-four” crowd, I engaged in a
thoughtful discussion with a
political science major who ex-
plained to me patiently and loudly
why we needed to get out of Viet-
nam.
What was this fuss about fight-
ing a war? Wasn’t that unpatri-
otic?
Whether I agreed with them or
not, I wanted to hear what these
students were saying.
My conservative husband spe-
cifically asked me to stay away
from the demonstrations.
Blame it on my newspaper
background; I couldn’t stand to
be away from things that were
happening. One day my curiosity
probably landed me on the 6
o’clock news. Trapped in a middle
of a sit-down demonstration, I had
no room in which to step over the
vast carpet of legs and laps. So I
just stood there, looking rather
sheepish, as the TV cameras
grinded away.
Another time, I was drawn into
a huge parade of protesters.
You’d thought a hurricane was
coming, the way English classes
I FINALLY GRADUATED in
the spring of ’70, a short time
after the Kent State tragedy. Pro-
testing the students’ deaths at
Kent State was my last
demonstration atUH.
Certainly, I hadn’t reckoned on
all this extra-activity as an older
student returning to college In the
late 1960s. I’d just wanted a
degree.
In that tense time, however,
there was a lot more to college
than just getting a degree. . V
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Scores Of Items In
^ Old Country Stores
* By PRESTON PENDERGRASS
’As 1 walked the aisles of a big aprons made of feed sacks. They
' ’ ' * |1| Baytown supermarket in search would lean on the counter with
mm of carpet tacks, my mind flashed mail-order glasses threatening to
back to the days of the general fall off and record items a
merchandise store when a mer- customer bought on a lined pad
m ". * * chant could rattle off every item that produced a carbon copy. If
S he had, tell you where to find it the items were charged, the pro-
■O and the price. cedure called for a math drill with
Several GM stores would fit in a the storekeeper calling out items
modern supermarket with its and prices as he wrote them
scores of items from silver polish down.
Sjj to pipe cleaners. Owners of these The worst kind of reputation a
vast merchandising emporiums man could, have in the community
must depend on computers to was trying to beat a grocery bill.
It soon became known if a resi-
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Argentine Atomic Power
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The United States suffered some loss of support in Latin
America for backing Britain against Argentina in the
Falklands War.
Now, in an effort to make amends, the Reagan adminis-
tration has approved the sale of heavy water for Argen- *
tina’s nuclear reactors. The Nuclear Regulatory Agency,
which has advised against sale of heavy water to Argen- j
tina jri the past, was not consulted by the administration. P
Argentina does not allow on-site inspections of its
nuclear plants. It has not signed’ the Nuclear Non- jj/<
Proliferation Treaty. It may be trying to develop the
atomic bomb.
The United States should not help Argentina become the
first?Latin American nation to have a nuclear weapon.
The military regime there is warlike and does-not respect
international law. It has been defeated in war, but not
unseated from power.
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keep up with stock and sales.
Old-time storekeepers guarded^ dent didn’t pay his grocery bill,
their establishments like a hen* and he sometimes owed other
shielding her chicks in a bills he wouldn’t pay.
thunderstorm. They watched
every move customers made,
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ceptable excuse a man could have
mostly youngsters who had a for not paying, or trying to pay,
habit of picking up things, pro- his grocery bill. Although most
bably more out of curiosity than merchants were strict in trying to
intent to steal. collect grocery debts, they would
Storekeepers were important g0 as far aa they could in “carry-
men in the community. They jng” a family until the breadwin-
were respected and admired ner was able to work again,
because of the material wealth
they had accumulated apd the
essential economic role they
played. In places too small or out
of the way for banks, merchants
often made small cash loans to
hurricane Cindy Not As
Bad Here As Feared, '63
1 Dave Sorter
From The Baytown Sun files, town, becomes the first fleet pilot
this is the way it was 40 and 30 and to make a night carrier landing in
20 years ago:
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jNew Shows Crop Up
On Vast Wasteland
I used to go with Grandma to an
old country store when I was a
small chap. It was about a mile
from where she lived and we had
to walk a footlog over a creek.
The reason I remember the
footlog so well is because I fell off
into the cool water a time or two.
the Navy’s new Cougar jet fight-
er. He is with the a fighter squad-
- SEPT. 17,1943
New cheerleaders elected at ron at the Naval Air Station in
Robert E. Lee High School are Jacksonville, Fla.
SEPT. 17,1963
After a night of indecision, Hur- During the next few weeks, the
With a hurricane threatening ricane Cindy roars across Galves- television viewers of America will
the Texas coast, thousands of ton Bay to hit the mainland at , be inundated with the hype-filled,
peole are evacuating today from High Island. Damage here was glittery and usually boring new
Galveston and Freeport but there light and rain amounted to 1.5 season. The three major net-
seems to be little anxiety in the inches.
Tri-Cities over the approach of Some storm-shy Brownwood cable channels will all be trying to
the storm. residents yesterday fled during win our hearts and shrink our
Elks Lodge members vote to the hurricane warning and a few minds with tried-and-true for-
buy a $3,000 war bond, reports families spent the night at Burnet mats.
Carl R. Mann, exalted ruler. This School in Wooster, a Civil
will make a total of $13,000 in bond Defense-Red Cross center,
bonds bought by the lodge.
David C. Archer Jr. is stationed A moving van owner says he
in the Navy at Jacksonville, Fla. moved furniture out of 12 Brown-
SEPT. 17,1953 wood homes Starting at 4 p.m.
Ralph Coker will be chairman yesterday and finishing up at 2
of commercial displays at the a.m. today. Many other Brown-
fifth annual Baytown Fair. Ben wood people moved themselves
Magness will be assistant chair- out yesterday, using trucks and
trailers.
Dimple Hamilton, Betty Jo Kueb-
ler, Jack Weir and Paul Webber.
customers and put the amount of
estranged co-star of Fantasy the loan on their grocery bills at
Island opens a confectionary and no interest. These were known as I
finally realizes his mistake, “weekend loans.” '
Every time he orders M&Ms he
gets an overload of “ze plain, ze
plain.”
Grandmas traded butter and
eggs for some of the items-
the items-she
needed, like matches and'sugar.
Most country folks didn’t have to
Part of a child’s upbringing in
those days was a warning from
parents not to go behind counters . „
Tales of the Little Monkey. The at the community grocery. If a much- They raised fruit and
vegetables, cured their own meat
works, PBS and the hundreds of
humane society chases Howard
Cosell around the country after
the verbose sports announcer is
overheard calling his pet chimp
“a little wide receiver.”'
The Friday Night Fights. The
candidates for the Democratic
youngster happened to forget, he
was curdy reminded by the owner an<* sometimes made their
soap. It was called lye soap and
boiling pork fat
an iron kettle. If you had good
strong skin, it was all right to
bathe with it-* Otherwise, it was
better for laundry purposes.
Storekeeper Bill Randolph was
own
that it was forbidden.
The counter was the
storekeeper’s barricade against
prying by the public into his
business affairs. It was often
sway-backed, uneven, sometimes
rickety in spots and dotted with
pine knots. I wondered what could a kindly man. I could look for-
be hidden under the counter -the ward to a free peppermint stick ‘
storekeeper didn’t want anyone to while Grandma did her trading
and shopping, after which she
Also, the counter was the mer- usually gave me a nickel. I could
chant’s desk, couch and wrapping > buy a heap of candy with that
table. On Sundays I used to peek much “dough.” ___•• -
through the keyhole on my way to One of the things I remember
Sunday School and see the owner best about the old country store
sleeping peacefully. was the aroma ofl fresh-ground
Sometimes, especially if there coffee mingled wth chocolate
happened to be a Sunday after- drops and licorice sticks softened
noon baseball game in the by summer heat,
neighborhood, the store would ' Truly, the old country store had
open a couple hours so players unique character that told us
and spectators could quench their something good about America. I
thirst. It was illegal to sell tobac- hated to see these institutions con-
signed to the oblivion of history.
was made from
in
Yes, there will be new prime-
time soap operas to try to cash in
on the fame of Dallas and
Dynasty. We will see new
“realistic” dramas and situation
comedies, and one network is
even putting a new twist on an old
concept: Two men living in the
same apartment with a woman.
Hmmmm.
presidential nomination square
off in a series 6f debates.
This last entry has already
spawned a spin-off:
Gimme A Break. The campaign
speeches of recently-announced
candidates George McGovern
and Harold Stassen.
There’s more.
MTV masterpiece Television).
The greatest classical pieces,
operas and ballets presented with
avant-garde video clips. The pro-
mos have Allistair Cooke scream-
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see.
Of course, many shows were
developed by the networks and
independent producers, but did
not make the schedules. This Col-
umnist’s unimpeachable TV
source, “Shallow Humor,” has
provided a list of some of these
never-was shows.
Luckenbach. Two families of ing, “Kindly give me my MTV.”
leading armadillo facers are con- Finally, there’s one show dear
stantly at each other’s throats so to my heart:
they can get the edge for the next Young Reporters in Love. A
race. The characters in the hard-working, first-job journalist
soaper will do anything to win, In- forms a life-long attachment to
man.
fpl. Dewey T. Dugat Jr., sta- Newly-built homes line the bay-
tioned in Korea, is scheduled to fronts in Brownwood, standing
return home this month. Son of like fortresses against wind and
Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Dugat of Old rain. In contrast are a few vacant
River, he is serving in the 2nd In- homes still standing in their Carla
fantry Division. debacle with Hurricane Cindy
Navy Lt. A.V, Barber, son of blowing through the boarded win-
Mr. and Mrs. A.V. Barber of Bay: dows and doors.
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Editor and Publisher, 1950-1974 eluding murder, kidnapping, the object with which he spends
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Whether any of these new
Russia. The only difference from shows make your 12-inch screen
the American game is that Rus- in the future is up to network
sian free safeties carry missile brass. But remember, these are*
lauchers to knock down pass at- the same folks who gave you
Supertrain, Green Acres and My
Tattoo’s Candy Store. The Mother tlfe Car. ’
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